Boris Pasternak, Russian writer was awarded the

Boris Pasternak, Russian writer was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. When historical novel, Dr. Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR, it was smuggled into Western Europe and published in 1957. The Soviet government pressured him to decline the Prize, but his descendants accepted it his name 1988. (CSU_2015_9_1063)

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